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Title:  An essay on the bite of a mad dog: in which the claim to infallibility of the principal preservative remedies against the hydrophobia is examined. By John Berkenhout, M.D.
Author: Berkenhout, John, 1730?-1791.
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48. Dr. James's theory, therefore, being contradicted by anatomical demonstration, necessarily falls to the ground. The hypo∣thesis of Boerhaave, Mead, and others, who supposed the seat of the disease to be in the nervous fluid, is equally insup∣portable, because no such fluid circulates in the nerves, which are not tubes but solid fibres, whose extremities therefore are incapable of absorption.49. If these theories be false, those who read for information will ask, where lies the truth? If such readers have sufficiently attended to the 47th paragraph they will easily conceive that the poisonous saliva of the dog is absorbed by the capillary lymphatic veins, whose ramifications ex∣pand to every part of the surface of the human body; those veins which imbibe the matter communicated by inoculation, the venereal virus, water, and infectious miasmata from the air.0